David Leslie Hawksworth

David Leslie Hawksworth CBE (born 1946 in Sheffield, UK) is a British mycologist and lichenologist currently with a professorship in the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in Madrid, Spain and also a Scientific Associate of The Natural History Museum in London. In 2002, he was honoured with an Acharius Medal by the International Association for Lichenology.[1] He married Patricia Wiltshire, a leading forensic ecologist and palynologist in 2009.[2] As of 2015 he is the Editor-in-Chief of the journals IMA Fungus[3] and Biodiversity and Conservation.[4]

Selected publications

Articles

Hawksworth, D. L.; Rose, F. (1970). "Qualitative Scale for estimating Sulphur Dioxide Air Pollution in England and Wales using Epiphytic Lichens". Nature. 227 (5254): 145–148. Bibcode:1970Natur.227..145H. doi:10.1038/227145a0. PMID 5428399. S2CID 4219503.
Hawksworth, D. L. (1988). "The variety of fungal-algal symbioses, their evolutionary significance, and the nature of lichens". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 96: 3–20. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.1988.tb00623.x.
Hawksworth, D.L. (1991). "The fungal dimension of biodiversity: Magnitude, significance, and conservation". Mycological Research. 95 (6): 641–655. doi:10.1016/S0953-7562(09)80810-1.
Harper, J. L.; Hawksworth, D. L. (1994). "Biodiversity: Measurement and estimation. Preface". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences. 345 (1311): 5–12. doi:10.1098/rstb.1994.0081. PMID 7972355.
Hawksworth, David L.; Rossman, Amy Y. (1997). "Where Are All the Undescribed Fungi?". Phytopathology. 87 (9): 888–891. doi:10.1094/PHYTO.1997.87.9.888. PMID 18945058.
Hawksworth, David L. (2001). "The magnitude of fungal diversity: The 1.5 million species estimate revisited". Mycological Research. 105 (12): 1422–1432. doi:10.1017/S0953756201004725.
Hawksworth, David L. (2011). "A new dawn for the naming of fungi: Impacts of decisions made in Melbourne in July 2011 on the future publication and regulation of fungal names". Ima Fungus. 2 (2): 155–162. doi:10.5598/imafungus.2011.02.02.06. PMC 3359813. PMID 22679600.
Hawksworth, David L.; Lücking, Robert (2017). "Fungal Diversity Revisited: 2.2 to 3.8 Million Species". The Fungal Kingdom. pp. 79–95. doi:10.1128/9781555819583.ch4. ISBN 9781683670827.

Books and monographs

with Francis Rose: Air pollution and lichens. 1976.[5]
with David J. Hill: The lichen-forming fungi. 1984.[6]

as editor

with B. W. Ferry and M. S. Baddeley: Air pollution and lichens. 1973.
Ascomycete Systematics. Problems and Perspectives in the Nineties. 1994.[7]
with Alan T. Bull: Arthropod diversity and conservation. 2006.
with Alan T. Bull: Forest diversity and management. 2006.
with Alan T. Bull: Hawksworth, David L.; Bull, Alan T. (2006). Marine, freshwater, and wetlands biodiversity conservation. ISBN 9781402057342.
with Alan T. Bull: Vertebrate conservation and biodiversity. 2007.
with Alan T. Bull: Hawksworth, David L.; Bull, Alan T. (2007). Plant conservation and biodiversity. ISBN 9781402064449.

References

"Acharius Medallists". International Association for Lichenology. Retrieved 31 August 2015.
Biography at lichenology.org
"IMA Fungus - The global mycological journal, Editorial Board (2010 - 2014)". IMA Fungus. Archived from the original on June 16, 2015. Retrieved July 8, 2015.
"Biodiversity and Conservation". Springer Science+Business Media. Retrieved July 8, 2015.
Nash III, Thomas H. (1978). "Review of Lichens as Pollution Monitors, by David L. Hawksworth & Francis Rose". The Quarterly Review of Biology. 53 (3): 336. doi:10.1086/410725. ISSN 0033-5770.
Smith, D.C. (1985). "Review of The Lichen-forming Fungi. By David L. Hawksworth & David J. Hill". The Lichenologist. 17 (3): 315. doi:10.1017/S0024282985000469.
Seaward, Mark (1995). "Review of Ascomycete Systematics. Problems and Perspectives in the Nineties edited by David L. Hawksworth". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 117: 169. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.1995.tb00451.x.
IPNI. D.Hawksw.